The Urban Male Institute is designed to help students better navigate their college experience and build their connection to the university community

Rap Sessions

The Urban Male Initiative host engaging sessions with various topics to enhance the success of our students and provide resources.

Urban Male Initiative

"Empowering, Redefining, and Becoming Men of Content and Character"

Thank you for visiting the webpage of the Urban Male Initiative (UMI) at Florida Atlantic University. It is our desire to provide the urban males on our campus a culture of support, empowering them to meet the various challenges that they face both scholastically and socially.

It is our goal that through our various programming endeavors, that these men will be equipped with the skills needed to matriculate college successfully and garner the motivation needed to use their knowledge to impact themselves, along with their local and global communities.

As you browse our page and find out more about us, please join us as we take the initiative in Empowering, Redefining, and supporting our students in Becoming Men of Content and Character.

Al Campbell, Jr.

A Junior, Management Information Systems major from Micanopy Florida. more

Andrew Evans

This Freshman dreams of going to medical school and opening his own practice. more

Herculeson Demosthenes

This senior is majoring in Politcal Science and aspires to be an economist in The United Nations.more

NEWS

The UMI Spring Retreat

The UMI Spring 2018 Retreat will take place Friday, Feb. 2 through Saturday, Feb. 3. The retreat will Empower, Redefine, and teach our young men ways to become better men of content and character.

The UMI Kick-off

UMI kicked off the academic year with its annual UMI event to welcome new men into the program and to give the young men their first lesson in Refinement & Retention Through Relationships.

The Urban Male Initiative

The mission of the Urban Male Initiative at Florida Atlantic University is to develop and motivate urban male umis, to successfully identify and utilize pathways to a timely graduation and job placement.

Florida Atlantic University embodies a culture of strategic and collaborative community engagement that results in mutual benefit to the institution and the diverse internal and external communities that it serves.